Shuttle-binder for looms.



No. 742,707 7 PATENTED 001. 27, 1 903.

F. A. MILLS. SHUTTLE BINDER FOR LOOMS. A PPPPPPPPPP FILED APR. so. 1903.

HHHHHHH tio. was iatented October a, 1903;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS ARTHUR MILLS, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GROSVENOR B. EMMONS, OF METHUEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUTTLE-BINDER FOR LOOMSI.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 742,707, dated October 27, 1903;

Application filed April 30, 1903. Serial No. 155,004. (No model.)

T ll whom i may C W 0 1 the side of the bore and is clenched at each Be itknownthatLFRANOIs ARTHURMILLS, end upon a head-plate 6, which are coun a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Lawtersunk in the sides of the binder, so that at rence, in the county of Essex and State of Masthe shuttle side the head-plate will make no 5 5 5 sachusetts, (whose post-oflice address is No. wear upon the shuttle. In this way the rivet 251 South Broadway, Lawrence, Massachuis made double-headed, each head-plate lap setts,) have invented certain new and useful ping or extending over the sides of the bore, Improvements in Shuttle-Binders for Looms, so that while the rivet forms a strong brace of which the following is a specificationa at the side of and at right angles to the bore 10 In an application for a patent for improvethe'sides of the bore are bound and braced ment in shuttle-locks for looms filed by me by the rivet head=plates, which overlap the February 10, 1903, Serial No. 142,707, I have sidesof the bore. The race-lay 7 is provided described and shown alever device in cooper with the usual slot 8 for the picker-stick 9, ation with the shuttle-binder, the impactthe picker 10 for which receives the impact 15 stap, and the picker and picker-stick to aeof the shuttle. The shuttle-binder forms one tuate the binder to lock the shuttle by the side of the shuttle-box, and on this side of pressure thereon of the lever device whereby the shuttle-box is fulcrumed upon the lay a to render effective the lock of the shuttle at compound lever device, which, as shown, is a determined point in the shuttle-box. It has composed of a pair of levers having meeting 20 been found that the locking pressure on the arms, so that the pressure of one lever is combinder has caused it to split at the bore for municated at the other,which delivers it upon the pivot on which the binder is mounted, bethe free end of the binder and the latter upon cause the point on the shuttle at which the the shuttle. One of these levers,11,is mounted pressure is made is the fulcrum of the binder, near the pivot of the binder, and the other, 12, 25 so that the pressure of the lever device sudis mounted near the free end of the binder, denly delivered by an impact blow upon the so that one of its arms bears upon this end of free end of the binder has caused the binder the binder, while an arm of the other lever to split at its pivoted end, and for this reason is connected to the strap 13, which passes the locking device while effective in its funcaround in rear of the picker-stick and is con- 0 tion has been found impossible for use with nected to the lay, the other arm of this lever the binder without provision for preventing having a bearing upon the meeting end of the its splitting. This provisionIhave made,and other lever. In this relation of these lever it consists in reinforcing the bore of the binder members when the strap is under the impact at its pivoted end in a manner to make it duof the pickerstick it will cause its connected 8 5 3 5 rable and to resist any pressure delivered lever 11 to press upon the binder-connected upon the binder by the lever device to look lever 12, and thereby cause the binder to press the binder upon the shuttle. upon the .shuttle with acompound leverage The accompanying drawings illustrate in pressure, and in this way the shuttle is grad- Figure 1 this improved binder and its relation ually stopped and always held at the deter- 0 to the locking lever device and to the shuttle. mined point in the shuttle -boX. It is this Fig. 2 shows the binder and the manner of repressure upon the binder which causes it to inforcing the bore at its pivoted end. Fig. 3 split at its pivoted end.

shows a longitudinal section of the same. I claim 7 Fig. 4 shows a binder split by the pressure of 1. In a loom, a shuttle-binder, having the 45 the locking device. shuttle-locking swell, its mounting-pivot, a

The binder 1 is of the usual form and prorivet at right angles to and at the side of the vided with the bore 2 to receive the pivot 3 bore and a countersunk head-plate clenched and has the swell 4:, at which the lock is made on each end of the rivet and flanking or lapagainst the side of the shuttle in the shuttleping the opposite sides of the bore of pivot. :00 5o box. At right angles to the bore a strong 2. In a-loom and in combination, ashuttlerivet 5 is driven through the binder close to box, a picker and a picker-stick, and impactstrap for the picker, lever members connected to one end of the strap and t0 the free end of the binder, a binder having the shuttle-100king swell, and its mounting-pivot and means for preventing the splitting of the binder at its bore under the force of the impact Which consists of a rivet and a countersunk headplate clenched on each end of the pivot and lapping 0r flanking the opposite sides of the bore. 10

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

, FRANCIS ARTHUR MILLS. Witnesses:

JOHN G. GOURDEAU, DANIEL J. CAREY. 

